How Does Toxic Stress Affect Low-Income and Black Children?
“In the report for the Economic Policy Institute, Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein synthesize research to zoom in on the effects of stressful childhoods on low-income children, and black and white children. They find that children with low family income—children with a family income of $20,000 or less—are more likely to encounter threatening experiences and the ‘toxic stress’ that accompanies it. They also find black children generally have more exposure to these experiences than white children.”